His Runaway Campfire Princess (Camp Firefly Falls) by Gwen Hayes

Author:Gwen Hayes [Hayes, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gwen Hayes
Published: 2017-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Good morning, Campers!

Softball games start today. Let’s cheer our teams on.

As a reminder, skinny dipping is against camp rules. If we catch you, we steal your clothes and hang them on the flag post. You’ll notice a pair of boxers up there this morning.

Go for a walk in the forest, they said. It will be fun, they said…

Merriam’s heart skipped more than one beat when she and her three friends heard the rustling on the trail during their girls only hike.

Something else was in this woods with them.

“Did you hear that?” Lucy asked.

Merriam had indeed.

Maybe it was a raccoon. Or squirrel. Or a bear. A big angry bear.

Or a terrorist finally getting his chance at a royal alone with no protection.

Harmon was going to kill her. If she lived through the bear attack.

She listened very carefully to the quiet. The breeze shook some branches overhead, a nearby creek gurgled happily, birds in the distance trilled to each other. Probably laughing at the four women obviously out of their element.

Lucy, her first and best friend from the trip was about five-and-a-half feet of blonde southern belle. Every word she said, no matter how foul, sounded like it had been dipped in sugar. She worked in an office in Atlanta and had come to camp three times. But that was her really her only outdoor experience.

Hannah was a bookkeeper from New York City. But she ran in the park every day. Again, not a lot of bears.

And Monica. Sweet, adorkable Monica taught kindergarten in a small town in Wisconsin. She might have been more useful on a normal day. But today, the problem was that all four of them were a little drunk.

Merriam had to beg, literally beg, to come on this hike without Harmon. Turned out the begging had fallen on deaf ears, but when she got down on her knees in front of him to make her point, he’d gotten so uncomfortable he’d relented. Good to know he was actually so afraid of her giving him head that he’d rather she run around the woods unprotected from a serial killer.

Or a raccoon.

And now maybe that was the last memory she’d have of him before she was torn limb from limb by a wild, hungry beast.

Lucy pulled out a canister of pepper spray. Oh, thank goodness. At least one of them had been thinking before they left. None of them were thinking now.

She stepped behind her new friend, who was having trouble figuring out the safety cap on the spray. She was a little afraid Lucy was going to remove said safety cap while simultaneously depressing the button, and she wasn’t really interested in seasoning herself in pepper for whatever beast was about to eat her.

And Harmon thought she had no self-preservation skills.

“Shh,” Hannah said.

“Nobody’s talking,” Lucy whispered. “Well they weren’t. I’m talking now.”

“Shh,” Hannah repeated.

Hannah was the most athletic of the four of them, so Merriam knew what was likely to happen was Hannah would get away clean while she, Lucy, and Monica would scramble hopelessly.

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